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What if my kid went to Dawson's School of Online Learning?

I started wondering, not long ago, if my fictional education aggregator, Dawson's School of Online Learning (DSOL, pronounced Dee-Sole, for short, since every school has to have a good acronym) was such a great idea. How would I feed if one of my own kids decided to go there instead...

Tags: Acronym, Online Learning, E-learning, Training And Certification, Enterprise Software, Software, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-09-28

Friday Fun: Your Top 10(ish) alternatives to "smartphones"

This morning, I posted an entry about the evolution of smartphones - with the news hook being the arrival of the new Motorola Cliq, powered by Google Android. In that post, I noted that the "phone" feature on the device was secondary to other apps - notably e-mail and social...

Tags: Phone, Acronym, Smart Phone, Computer, Productivity, PDAs, Handhelds, Smart Phones, Notebooks, Telecom & Utilities, Cellular Phones, Hardware, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Notebooks & Tablets, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-09-11

Acronyms Dictionary 1.1 (Mobile)

Acronyms Dictionary contains more than 1200 popular acronyms. All the expansions are listed in this application. Alphabetically listed and you can search the acronyms with the search toolbar.

Tags: Mobile, Acronym, Niranjan Kumar, Acronyms Dictionary, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-08-25

AcroLexic 2.0 (Windows)

AcroLexic is our recent development to assist you with your translation difficulties. AcroLexic 2.0 is a dictionary of acronyms and abbreviations. Currently it contains more than 70,000 terms with more than 150,000 definitions. This dictionary will be a valuable addition to your electronic bookshelf. It will relieve you from the...

Tags: Acronym, Microsoft Windows, AcroLexic 2.0, AcroLexic, Search Option, Construction

Software downloads 2009-08-25

Eagle 5.6 (Mac)

The EAGLE Layout Editor is an easy to use, yet powerful tool for designing printed circuit boards PCBs. The name EAGLE is an acronym, which stands for Easily Applicable Graphical Layout Editor. The program consists of three main modules - Layout Editor, Schematic Editor, Autorouter - which are embedded in...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Acronym, EAGLE Layout Editor, Productivity, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-05-04

NATS Acronyms Glossary for Palm OS 6.0 (Mobile)

Free glossary of UK National Air Traffic Services with descriptions of over 5000 engineering acronyms. Special thanks to Mr. David Blaikie.

Tags: Mobile, Acronym, Palm Inc., Palm OS, Handhelds, Operating Systems, Advertising & Promotion, Software, Hardware, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-09-19

ALP 1.9p (Mobile)

ALP is an acronym for: Account Login Password. This program was designed to hold the most import three pieces of information people have to remember in today's high-tech world.Key Benefits:Hash Encrypted Database Graphical Pad Lock feature Easy to navigate user interface Attach notes to any account JAVA Conduit available

Tags: Mobile, Acronym, ALP, Programming Languages, Advertising & Promotion, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-03-20

Yamb 2.0.0.8 (Windows)

Yamb is the acronym of Yet Another Mp4Box UI. This is a new graphical interface for mp4box using, a tool based on command lines which is a part of GPAC Framework. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Tags: Graphical Interface, Acronym, Yamb, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2007-12-18

Hooray! 'SOA' voted most 'confusing acronym of the year'

I guess Mrs. Pedrick, my eighth-grade English teacher, would not be happy to hear that I regularly discuss and promote and disseminate the world's most confusing acronym. But alas, 'SOA' has made the top of this year's list from the Global Language Monitor. Not just the top...

Tags: Acronym, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2007-11-05

ZFS, HW RAID, and expensive mis-apprehensions

Last week frequent contributor _dietrich drew everyones attention to a piece by Timothy Morgan comparing various low to mid range Unix and Windows servers from a "bang for the buck" perspective. Its an interesting piece of work and one I wish Id done despite Morgans politically...

Tags: Sun Solaris, Operating systems, Performance management, Servers, duck, Unix, TPC/C, acronym, Sun Microsystems Inc., performance, server

Blog posts 2006-12-20

Chat Acronyms Widget 1 (Mac)

The Chat Acronyms widget allows you to quickly look up definitions of acronyms and abbreviations used in online chat, instant messaging, bulletin boards, E-mail, and text messaging. Unsure of what a certain acronym means. Use this dashboard widget to look up the meaning of any acronym you don't understand. ...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Acronym, Sharpened Productions, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, E-mail, Instant Messaging, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Internet

Software downloads 2006-06-16

MSDict Professional Dictionary Bundle (S60) (Mobile)

5 English Dictionaries in 1MSDict Professional Dictionary Bundle is a software suite of five English dictionaries and includes over 170,000 words and definitions. The bundle offers an extensive English dictionary, thesaurus, phrases and idioms, and grammar assistance. The software is an excellent reference tool for wide range of users -...

Tags: Acronym, Dictionary, English Phrases, Phrases, Example Sentence, Tools & Techniques, Productivity, Management

Software downloads 2005-01-17

Forty years of acronymophobia

In response to Dan Farber's blog entry (see Gartner predicts: All roads lead to SOA) and column regarding one of the major themes at this Fall's Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, Mark Lewis asks "What is SOA?"  All too often, acronyms like SOA emerge from the keyboards of journalists like Dan Farber and me without a...

Tags: RTE, SOA

Blog posts 2004-10-19

WTF-X 0.1 (Mac)

WTF-X is a Mac OS X programm to translate common Internet acronyms like ROFL or ETLA. It's a port of BSD's commandline tool wtf, but unlike this tool it's running as a service in OS X and also offers a GUI to browse through all the acronyms and add new...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Acronym, Tool, Michael Meer, WTF-X, Apple Mac OS X, Productivity, Apple Mac OS, Operating Systems, Desktops, Software, Hardware

Software downloads 2004-05-09

Internet Acronyms (Mobile)

Huge list of more than 1,000 internet acronyms like BTW, ROTFL, RTFM, FYI, TIA, etc. used in e-mails, news and chats.When you see an acronym and do not understand it, find its meaning in this convenient SuperMemo database and learn it by heart if you want. To view this free...

Tags: Mobile, Acronym, SuperMemory Knowledge Goldmine, Internet, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2002-11-25

MSDict Professional Dictionary Bundle 5 (PPC) (Mobile)

5 English Dictionaries in 1MSDict Professional Dictionary Bundle is a software suite of five English dictionaries and includes over 170,000 words and definitions. The bundle offers an extensive English dictionary, thesaurus, phrases and idioms, and grammar assistance. The software is an excellent reference tool for wide range of users -...

Tags: Acronym, Dictionary, English Phrases, Phrases, Example Sentence, Tools & Techniques, Productivity, Management

Software downloads 2002-08-21

MSDict Professional Dictionary Bundle-English 8.30 (Mobile)

5 English Dictionaries in 1MSDict Professional Dictionary Bundle is a software suite of five English dictionaries and includes over 170,000 words and definitions. The bundle offers an extensive English dictionary, thesaurus, phrases and idioms, and grammar assistance. The software is an excellent reference tool for wide range of users -...

Tags: Acronym, Dictionary, English, English Phrases, Phrases, Example Sentence, Tools & Techniques, Productivity, Management

Software downloads 2002-08-20

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Hornil StylePix 1.0.1.1121 (Windows)

Hornil StylePix, or simply StylePix, is a free image editor with a number of advanced features. Stylepix is an acronym for "Style Pictures". This means your pictures with nice style. Hornil StylePix has intuitive user interface. It is designed to control the selected functions easy and conveniently. Even if you...

Tags: Removable Storage, Microsoft Windows, Hornil, Hornil StylePix, StylePix, Flash Memory

Software downloads 2009-11-18

Major online ad site hacked, serving up exploit cocktail

One more reason to use FirefoxUse Firefox with AdBlock Plus and a simple filter of *media-servers.net* and the problem is solved.I am not sure that they are "major" as I did not have a filter for them.AgreedYet, I bet the web hosts will STILL complain about it. RE: Major online...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, Viruses and worms, Confession, online advertising, Microsoft Windows, Ryan

Discussion threads 2009-11-10

Money pit? Clearwire to get cash infusion

DisasterSprint's biggest problem is Nokia. Nokia has a monopoly for making cell tower hardware -- radios, controllers, antenna steering motors, etc. Before Sprint installs any tower equipment, Nokia tests it for compatibility, but wouldn't you know it, no products pass Nokia's inspection except for Nokia's products. And...

Tags: Corporate governance, Wi-Fi, Wireless and Mobility, Nokia Corp., Clearwire Corp., AT&T Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-11-09